Detroit to Salute State of Israel at Campaign's
Final Rally Monday; Lourie, Schwartz to Speak

Hon. Arthur Lourie, Consul General in New York for the Provisional
Government of Israel, and Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, executive vice-chairman
of the European program of the Joint Distribution Committee, will be guest
speakers at the closing dinner meeting of the 1948 Allied Jewish Campaign,
when workers and contributors to the drive will gather to pay tribute to
the State of Israel. The meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday, June 28,
in the Grand Ballroom of the Book Cadillac Hotel.
Aiming to make the closing dinner a victory dinner, workers in trade
and professional divisions met this week for re-assignment to provide for
coverage of all remaining slips.
. The closing dinner will be Detroit's tribute to Israel, according to
Maurice Aronsson, chairman of the campaign, who said: "The courage-
ous step taken by the 700,000 inhabitants of the new State of Israel in
establishing a homeland against overwhelming odds lies in their basic
belief in freedoth and the right of man to live in dignity and pe a ce. It
is the spirit that we in America understand and live by—the same spirit
that moved the American patriots at Concord and at Valley Forge,
when they were fighting for independence."
In addition to his post as Consul General, Lourie holds the position of
director of Israel's United Nations office. All of this year, prior to the forma-
tion of Israel, he was director of the New York office of the Jewish Agency
for alestine. A native of South Africa, where he was born in 1903, Lourie
became connected with Palestinian political affairs in 1933 when he gave
up the practice of law in Johannesburg to assume the position of Political
Secretary of the Jewish Agency for Palestine in London.
Dr. Schwartz, whose most recent visit to Detroit was his address before
the annual meeting of the Jewish Welfare Federation in 1947, is one of the
world's leading authorities on the position of Europe's 1,000,000 Jewish
survivors. From his JDC headquarters in Paris, he directs the vast relief,
resettlement and reconstruction program in Europe of the major American
agency aiding distressed Jews abroad.

NOTRE DAME, Ind. — Believ-
ed to be the first alumnus of the
University of Notre Dame to be
ordained a rabbi, the Rev. Albert
Plotkin, of South Bend, Ind., re-
cently was ordained to the Amer-
ican rabbinate upon his gradua-
tion from the Hebrew Union Col-
lege in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Rabbi Plotkin, who was grad-
uated with magna cum laude
honors from Notre Dame in 1942;

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Extra Seats to Be Available at Program for
Those Not Reserving Plates for the Dinner

Reservations for Monday's dinner meeting are being taken at
Allied Jewish Campaign headquarters, 250 W. Lafayette, WOodward
5-3939. For those who will find it impossible to make reservations for
the dinner, seating arrangements are being made to hear the messages
of Mr. Lourie and Dr. Schwartz after dinner, at 8:30 p.m. First corners
naturally will have the preferred opportunity to be seated and to
attend the important program.

clean-up committees, while services division chairman John Isaacs called
his workers together Sunday for a review of all slips, including those
already covered. In the real estate and building council, pre-campaign
worker's, along with division chairmen Joseph Holtzman and Barney Smith,
have accepted slips in all sections, while arts and crafts leaders Nathan
Abrams, Paul P. Broder, Arthur Robinson and Alex Schreiber have formed
a flying squad to finish up the work in their division.

2—THE JEWISH NEWS

A Path to Brotherhood

Notre Dame Graduate

Formerly executive director of the Federation of Jewish Charities in
Brooklyn,.from 1931 to 1938, Dr. Schwartz has studied and worked in Europe
since 1939. In 1945, Dr. Schwartz, at the request of President Truman, accom-
panied Earl G. Harrison on an inspection tour of DP camps in the American
zones of Germany and Austria. The now- famous Harrison report, which re-
sulted in the improvement of living conditions in the camps, presented the
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joint views of Harrison and Dr. Schwartz.
In the Mercantile Division of the Campaign, all section chairmen met
with Samuel H. Rubiner, division chairman, on June 15, to form special

Friday, June 25, 1948

is Ordained at HUC

Golda Meyerson Israeli

was awarded the Master of He-
brew Letters degree with the Spokesman in Moscow
same high honors at the Cincin-
nati institution and received the
Leo Simon Memorial award for
the highest mark of his class in
comprehensive examinations. His
thesis on "Comparative Study of
the Catholic and Jewish Tradi-
tions of Charity" soon will be
published.

Purely Commentary

By Philip. Slornovitz

Dugdale Credo for Israel: 'Desire fo Recapture.:Normality'

Little—too little—has been said in the American press about
Mrs. Blanche C. E. Dugdale, niece of Arthur James Balfour, who
died shortly after the proclamation of the State of Israel to whose
upbuilding she had contributed more than any other Christian
woman of our time.
Her friends called her "Bally," For 30 years she labored
in the ranks of the builders of Zion, traveled widely in behalf of
the Zionist cause and vsiited Palestine many times. She quoted her
famous uncle, Lord Balfour, author of the Balfour Declaration: "Near
the end of his days he said to me that on the whole he believed
that what he had been able to do for the Jews was the thing he
looked back on as the thing most worth doing."
Mrs. Dugdale, who did a tremendous amount of work in behalf
of Youth Aliyah, wrote extensively iri -behalf of Zionism. Her pamph-
let on the Balfour Declaration and her biography of her great uncle
are historic works. Her definition of Zionism is: "The desire to re-
capture normality." •
"Baffy" Dugdale is one of a group of Christian women whose
names will be recorded in inerasable letters in the annals of the
State of Israel. George:Elliot (Mary Evans), author of "Daniel De-
ronda," Lorna Wingate (widow of Brig. Gen. Orde Wingate and
mother of • 4-year-old Ein Harod Halutz Orde Jonathan Ben-Zion
,Wingate) and her mother, Mrs. Moncrieff Patterson, belong to this
group of non-Jewish builders of Israel.
Blessed is the memory of "Baffy" Dugdale.

TEL AVIV (JPS-Palcor)—MRS.
SOLDA MEYERSON, American-

born member of the Provisional
Council of Government of Israel
and the only woman on that body,
will be Israel's first Minister to
the U.S.S.R. She will be accom-
panied to Moscow by Eiga Sha-
piro of the Israeli Foreign Office
staff, who will be her personal
secretary.

'History and Histrionics'—Lipsky's Plea for Emulation of Heroism

Self-Help Create
Memorial Fund
For Fred Butzel

A "Committee for Progressive Zionism WITHIN the Zionism
Organization of America" has been formed, with headquarters at
250 W. 43rd St., New York City, and its official organ, Zionist Issues,
carries in its first issue, three important articles by Louis Lipsky,
Henry Montor. and Bernard G. Richards. Lipsky's is by far the most
interesting of the articles. His plea, under the heading "History and
Histrionics," is a simple one. He argues against glorification of in-
dividual "Miracle-Workers" and pleads for recognition of the fact
that representatives of all parties, Zionists who have labored for
several decades to prepare the ground for the State of Israel, have
had a share in the victory of Israel. He objects to the glorification
of two men, to an attempt "to black out the past," to the enforce-
ment of party domination which he interprets ae meaning that "the
moment of glory could not be shared." .
It is evident that Mr. Lipsky is bitter against "these unworthy
manifestations of competitive Zionist leadership, its self-glorification
and arrogance," and he asks for a "return to normal Jewish life, to
the old Zionist traditions, to the old Jewish manners." He wants the
emulation in this country to some degree of "the heroism and self-
sacrifice of those who are now fighting Israel's battles and dying
on its soil in order that it may be tree."
Many people will be saddened by the internecine Zionist battle.
Surely, in this hour of triumph, we should be united in order that
Israel should be kept strong. But unity can not be attained through
"self-glorification." Israel.- . exists because men like Louis Lipsky
labored for the ideal for .50 years. Without the Lipskys and the
Stephen Wises we . could not have created the foundation for the
reality of the Jewish State's..present position. If our present leaders
forget the past (it was evident at previous conventions that they
are masters in the art of "forgetting" the pioneers) they may prove
incompetent to deal with the future.
- Delegates to the approaching Zionist convention will do well to
study the issues raised by Messrs. Lipsky, Montor and Richards.
"Traditions" and "manners" have been helpful in attaining the
Zionist goal in the past. They will be helpful instruments in future
planning for Israel,

In honor of its late honorary
president, Mr. Fred M. Butzel,
Selfhelf of Emigres from Europe,-
Detroit chapter, decided to cre-
ate the Fred M. Butzel Fund to
help needy newcomers to Detroit.
The decision was announced by
Ernest Gans, past president of
the organization, at a memorial
meeting in the Jewish Center.
A committee was appointed to
plan the fund. Trustees will be
elected to carry on the great
principles of Fred Butzel who, as
Aaron Droock, president of the
Jewish Community Council, said
in his memorial address, "gave
help to everybody without look-
ing for race, color or creed."
Reuben Manko, vice president
of Selfhelp, Dr. Gabriel Steiner,
professor at Wayne University,
and Rabbi Leopold Neuhaus of
Congregation Gemiluth Chaso-
dim, also spoke.
Julius Chajes, musical director
of the Jewish Center and Mar-
guerite Kozenn, soprano, provid-
ed the musical program. Hun-
dreds of Mr. Butzel's friends
were present

A Theologian's Tribute to F. M. Butzel

Niebuhr Honors Memory of Man
Of Great Wisdom and Charity

By REINHOLD NEIBUHR

In recent years, on my various
visits to Detroit I never failed to
stop in for a visit with Mr. Butzel.
It was always .intriguing to find
the ante-chamber of his office
filled with all sorts and conditions
of men, waiting for their turn to
pour their troubles into his ears.
He did not always speak softly
to those who came to him. Some-
times he delivered a powerful
curtain lecture to those who de-
served it. There was in fact not
a• note of sentimentality in any
of his words or attitudes. On the
contrary he was endowed with
a sense of humor bordering on
the sardonic and with a spirit of
realism, bordering on the cynical.
This made it possible for him to
penetrate through all kinds of
pretenses and disguises and get
at the heart of the matter.
._ There are very few men in
America who made the public
welfare their private business. as
completely as Mr. Butzel. The
avocation of most of us was his
vocation. How he will be missed
both in the Jewish community
and in the total community of
Detroit! So rare a spirit can not •
be replaced. But those of us who
knew him will never cease to be
grateful for the gift of his friend-
ship and will regard the memory
of his life as a benediction.

Union Theological Seminary

Fred Butzel was one of the
rarest Souls I ever met. I do not
remember what my first con-
tacts with him were during my
13 years. pastorate in Detroit. But
my memories of Detroit are in-
extricably bound up with him. I
-know we served on various civic
committees together including
the first municipal commission, on
race relations appointed by May
Whether in the con-
tacts • of these official and semi-
official„duties or in intimate per-
sonal conversation, I soon dis-
covered that this was one of the
wisest of men. I think his wisdom
was derived . primarily from his
great charity. He sought to
understand every situation, not
from his own standpoint, but
from the standpoint of those
whom he sought to help. There
was also a remarkable quality'
of disinterestedness in his judge-
ments, which prompted more and
more people to turn to him, whe-
ther for counsel in public affairs
or in private perplexities. I won-
der . how many people ; of moder-
ate means appointed Fred their
executors in their last will and
testament. There must have been
scores upon scores.

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Heard in the Lobbies

(Copyright, 1948, Independent Jewish Press Service, Inc.)

By ARNOLD LEVIN

Phony Truce

LAKE SUCCESS.—The UN was in a bad way over the Palestine
situation. Palestine seemed to be the rock on which the UN, wobbly
and unseaworthy, would be wrecked. Along came the phony truce
proposal, and the UN has regained prestige. It seems to be doing
something. What the UN is doing is—exactly nothing. It serves, as a
smoke-screen for the Bevins and Forrestals. Beyond Count Berna-
dotte, probably without his knowledge, lurk sinister figures. But the
UN seems intent on cashing in on its newly acquired prestige, and
impressing public opinion with Count Bernadotte's efforts although
they are likely to end in nothing. The dispatch of 50 guards to Pales-
tine was announced with all the possible fanfare and ballyhoo.
Actually the - UN is not moving ahead a single inch, Mr. Lie is merely
advancing a legend and Washington, London and Faris el Khoury,.
the "neutral'? chairman of the Security Council, are interested in
furthering the legend. .
Many romantic stories have been put into circulation about
Count Bernadotte, UN mediator in Palestine. Now this note in no
way intends to disparage the Count's reputation, or underestimate his
efforts in negotiating the release from Nazi camps and ghettos of
several thousands of Jews. But typical of the Count's general con-
fusion is his statement, in a book describing his -rescue mission, that
he had found Heinrich Himmler, master-killer, -a charming man. The
Himmlers shaping British Mid-East-policies can be even more charm-
ing, and so can some of Arabdom's Himmlers. At any rate, the Count's
compromises hitherto, in his shuttle-conferences between Israel and
the Arab countries, have been at the eXpenSe of Israel. It is a -dis-
turbing consistency in a neutral mediator. Who tipped - off Count
Bernadotte that it is Israel that has to be cowed? The Count may soon
find out that one Count cannot accomplish what all the Arab armies
and the British Foreign and War Offices have . failed to do. We repeat:
We may be all wrong about the Count, .although that is yet to be
seen. We agree with the moderate Israel daily Haaretz that the Count
and his staff are mucldle-.headed,. to say the least.

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